Tuesday, February 21, 2017

"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator."

— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 46

"I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work."

— Adolf Hitler, ibid. p. 65

"This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief."

— Adolf Hitler, ibid. p 152

"Thus
inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of
the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the
'remaking' of the Reich as they call it."

— Adolf Hitler, ibid. Vol. 2 Chapter 1

"The
National Government will preserve and defend those basic principles on
which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the
foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of
national life."

— Adolf Hitler, Berlin, 1933, first radio address after coming to power.

"The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society."

— Adolf Hitler, speech at the Reichstag, March 1933

"The
National Socialist State professes its allegiance to positive
Christianity. It will be its honest endeavor to protect both the great
Christian Confessions in their rights, to secure them from interference
with their doctrines, and in their duties to constitute a harmony with
the views and the exigencies of the State of today."

— Adolf Hitler, June 26 1934, to Catholic bishops

"Secular
schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious
instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious
foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and
religion must be derived from faith ... We need believing people."

— Adolf Hitler, April 1933, from a speech made during negotiations leading to the Nazi-Vatican Concordat of 1933"The
fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist
Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas is closer
to Christianity than those of Jewish liberalism or even atheistic
Marxism..."

— Adolf Hitler in an article in the Völkischer Beobachter, 1929

"I
am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of
Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted."

— Adolf Hitler

"Today
Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I
never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We
want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to
burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the
theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of
immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result
of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years."

"We
were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have
therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that
not merely with a few theoretical declarations; we have stamped it out."

— Adolf Hitler, speech, October 24, 1933

Here's a list of banned books in Germany, 1932-1939"As
for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the
Catholic Church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it has
regarded the Jews as dangerous and pushed them into ghettos etc.,
because it knew what the Jews were like. I don't put race above
religion, but I do see the danger in the representatives of this race
for Church and State, and perhaps I am doing Christianity a great
service."

"The work that Christ started but could not finish, I — Adolf Hitler — will conclude."

— Adolf Hitler, December 1926.

Here, here,
and here are more of his quotes on religion, God, and
Christianity. Here are Nazi photos showing their alliance with
Christianity.

Note
that Adolf Hitler was never excommunicated or in any other way
officially censured by the Catholic Church. The only high-ranking
Catholic Nazi to be excommunicated was Propaganda Minister Joseph
Goebbels — because he married a divorced Protestant woman."The party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, without, however, allying itself to any particular denomination."

Article 24, Program of the National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party

"I
swear by God this sacred oath that I shall render unconditional
obedience to Adolf Hitler, the Leader of the German empire, supreme
commander of the armed forces, and that I shall at all times be
prepared, as a brave soldier, to give my life for this oath."

German WWII Military Oath

"Our religion is Christ, our politics Fatherland!"— slogan of Hans Schemm, Bavarian Minister of Education and Culture during the Third Reich

Sunday, February 19, 2017

“A great chessplayer, a great golfer, a
great boxer, a great basketball star, a great swimmer, etc. are not
great men, for they leave the world as they found it.” No, the great man
is one who had the power and the courage to put more truths into this world where the State and the Church together have put only the horror of lies and deceptions. --- Poch Suzara

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. - - - Robert H. Schuller

If
you believe what they threatened you in school to believe,

you will die
never knowing how possible it was for you to have become a great man -
one who has the power, and the courage to put thoughtful ideas into this world where sick religion has only put thoughtless beliefs! - - - Poch Suzara

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Is there hope for the Filipinos in the Philippines to ever grow decent as a people; and, to ever
develop decent as a nation?

Yes,
there is! As soon as the State takes
over to be in full control of schools, colleges, and Universities.
Indeed, the Church should have no business in anyway whatsoever involved with the
system of education in any country. After all, nothing distorts the
minds and nothing contorts the hearts of children in school taught, nay,
frightened to believe in a lot of sick religious dogma, pigma, and hogma!- Poch Suzara

Monday, February 13, 2017

We squander our health, in search of wealth. We toil, we
sweat, and we save. Then we squander our wealth in search of health;
only

to find the grave. - - - Anonymous

As with me, however, I have been most fortunate. I squandered both my health
and wealth in search of the truth. It is a never-ending adventure; and in
the process I managed, somehow, to discover the lies and deceptions
that's keeping us spiritually sick as a people; and, keeping us
morally insane as a nation. In sharing, however, my discoveries with
others - I never intended to be vicious or malicious; in fact, I
thought, I should be ethically meritorious, if not philosophically
courageous.
In the meantime, the search of

the truth is the most delightful of
adventures. Especially as it means total submission of the power of reason to
the mutilation of
silly or childish faith. Rightly or wrongly it's the best way to enjoy
lively analysis as we should always reject the uselessness of deadly paralysis! - - - Poch Suzara

Thursday, February 09, 2017

Religion a ‘dying dinosaur’

This is in reference to the commentary titled “Will we ever attain economic take-off?” by Meliton Juanico (Opinion, 1/25/17).

The
Catholic Church and the religious values it espouses are the elephants
in the room that Juanico failed to address. The conditions necessary to
attain economic take-off are not being attained because the values being
taught are contrary to the “modern values” he is talking about.

We
have nothing comparable to the Confucian (secular) ethic that he says
the “tiger” economies of Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong
have. Our historical preoccupation with religion and the Church’s
influence on our values have put us at a disadvantage. Obedience,
subordination, subservience—hallmarks of oppressive organized
religion—are the very antithesis of modern economic success.

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It
is no accident that we make good retail clerks, caregivers, domestic
helpers, call center employees. These are good and needed workers, but
they won’t create a Samsung, a Tesla or a PayPal if we are constantly
being bombarded with sinning, fear-mongering, fire and brimstone. I have
never understood to this day why “may takot sa Dios” (fear of the Lord)
is a virtue. A child reared in this stifling environment becomes
risk-averse, timid and ambiguous.

Further,
absolutism and fixed religious ideology are a bane to creativity.
Self-reliance and resourcefulness continue to erode as we constantly
delude ourselves into “Hail Marying” through economic downturn and
poverty. You would think that after 500 years of living, breathing and
eating religion the way we do, it should have already brought us
unprecedented wealth and First World status.

We
can’t even claim the high moral stature of the most atheistic countries
in the world (read: Scandinavia). My friend Joe says: But we go to
heaven, and they go to hell. This is what 2,000 years of relentless
conditioning have done to Joe’s brain. It’s irrational, bordering on
mental illness.

Juanico
talks about “value reorientation,” using readers of the 1950s to
inculcate modern values. I don’t know where he is coming from, but my
grandchildren won’t read any fairy tales anymore. It’s iPad or nothing.
They are assertive and smarter than some of my teachers in the 1960s.

Good
grief, Juanico, “Good Manners and Right Conduct?” What is good and what
is right today? (You can say “bad” today and mean “good.”) Religion is a
dying dinosaur, but like prehistoric creatures, it will evolve and
continue for many more years.

The
pulpit should be a source of education for the masses, and not for
religious bullying. Stop all nonsense about medieval mythology. Talk
about what it means to be a citizen of the world instead. Speak about
Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin and Bill Gates. Let the faithful know what
happened during the Inquisition, the significance of the Enlightenment
and tell why Evolution is fact. If the Padre cannot handle these stuff,
he should humble himself and outsource the homily.

At
the current state of affairs in this country, will we attain economic
take-off? Yes, “until the cows come home,” if we don’t reinvent
ourselves.

EDWIN DE LEON, edwingdeleon@gmail.com

COMMENT:

Indeed, we can only build a better society for ourselves by throwing all of sick religious beliefs and insane religious values out the window. They do nothing for us except to keep usspiritually sick as a people and culturally insane as a nation.

It is time to take a serious look at the evils behind Christianity: It is all about praying daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly for the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. In the end, it is all about the same old sick story - the achievement of nothing as a people; and the accomplishment of nothing as a nation. And to think that all of the schools, colleges, and universities established by the Catholic church in the Philippines have been mostly about learning how to pray for the sake of gaining eternal salvation after death with Jesus in heaven! In the meantime, it is truly sickening: everybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die! Cheers! Poch Suzara, Father of Atheism in the Philippines

Sunday, February 05, 2017

For
my part, I say, the greatest tragedy of the human race is in its
capacity to still believe in the silly existence of a silly grace who is suppose to be existing as something of a divine grace for the human race. - - - Poch Suzara

Saturday, February 04, 2017

Religion
is not a good thing because the majority of people believe it. It is just like believing that a disease is a good thing because the majority of people
have caught it. Or just like the existence of Santa Claus is a good thing because the majority of children believe him to be coming soon bringing toys for them to play with.

As with me, I grew up to be an atheist because even as a little boy at home or in school - I enjoyed playing around

not only with my toys, but mostly with my thoughts! Even

at the risk of being punished for asking questions! Such as

if there is a God who created me why do I need to have parents at home, teachers in school, or need to have priests in church?